Rebecca Artemisa’s Colorful and Therapeutic Illustrations

I wrote about Rebec­ca Artemisa’s work on My Mod­ern Met last week, and found it so delight­ful that I want­ed to share it here. Aren’t all of her details divine? Ghosts! Can­dles! Snakes! Stars! So much. I love it, and espe­cial­ly enjoy the sym­bol­ism that’s inher­ent in all of her images.

Artemisa’s work is col­or­ful and some­times cheery. Oth­er times, though, it’s not. It’s filled with fear and sad­ness. Her paint­ings are a form of ther­a­py for the men­tal stress that her chron­ic ill­ness caus­es her. In her words:

i am still always paint­ing. my paint­ings feel very dark to me but i think it is easy to some­times dis­miss them as sweet. some­times my paint­ings get a lit­tle sweet look­ing, maybe as a way to cope with how bad i can feel. this isn’t a sad thing to me though, quite the oppo­site. i’m glad i have some­thing good to pour myself into when i am stuck inside so often, it keeps my life and my abil­i­ty to be kind opened up.

Be sure to check out her shop!